So-called gas-to-liquids technology has been proven on a larger scale, primarily at Royal Dutch Shell's plant in Qatar.

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Andrew Herndon and Brian Swint
| Bloomberg News

Technologies that create motor fuels from raw materials other than oil, some drawing on techniques first commercialized in Nazi Germany, are poised to turn the glut of U.S. natural gas into energy for cars, trucks and planes.

A Chesapeake Energy-backed company and Oxford Catalysts Group are planning U.S. factories to make diesel, gasoline and jet fuel from gas, which fell to a decade-low price this year. Their goal is to make motor fuels more cheaply and easily than oil-based products produced at giant refineries, and all within ...